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title: What would happen if nobody paid any taxes at all? — Taxes and local councils: bins, roads… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if nobody paid any taxes at all? Test 3 of lesson 8 «Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 3 · Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools

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What would happen if nobody paid any taxes at all?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** nobody · **What happens:** happen, pay · **To what, where:** taxes, all

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This is test 3 of lesson 8 «Taxes and local councils: bins, roads and schools» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/politics/8-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:8-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools:t3:1
# text = What would happen if nobody paid any taxes at all?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
6	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	taxes	tax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | nobody | any taxes |  | all |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tax=Asset |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The King would pay for everything himself out of the money in his own castles

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:8-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools:t3:o1:1
# text = The King would pay for everything himself out of the money in his own castles
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | would | the King | everything |  | the money |  | in King's own castles | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Councils would print free money for bins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:8-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools:t3:o2:1
# text = Councils would print free money for bins
1	Councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	print	print	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	bins	bin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **print** | would | Councils | free money |  |  |  | for bins | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Everything would get cheaper and nothing else would change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:8-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools:t3:o3:1
# text = Everything would get cheaper and nothing else would change
1	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
7	else	else	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | Everything |  |  |  |  | cheap *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **change** | would | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Shared things like schools, roads and police would have no money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:8-taxes-and-local-councils-bins-roads-and-schools:t3:o4:1
# text = Shared things like schools, roads and police would have no money
1	Shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | would | Shared things like schools and roads and police | no money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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